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A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.
”
Vladimir Nabokov quotes
(
Russian
born
American
Novelist
,
Critic
and
Author
of "Lolita",
1899
-
1977
)
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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.
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1899
-
1977
)
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A toothache will cost a battle, a drizzle cancel an insurrection
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Vladimir Nabokov quotes
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Russian
born
American
Novelist
,
Critic
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Author
of "Lolita",
1899
-
1977
)
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Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily application of old Greek myths to their private parts
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Vladimir Nabokov quotes
(
Russian
born
American
Novelist
,
Critic
and
Author
of "Lolita",
1899
-
1977
)
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Caress the detail, the divine detail
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Vladimir Nabokov quotes
(
Russian
born
American
Novelist
,
Critic
and
Author
of "Lolita",
1899
-
1977
)
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The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.
”
Vladimir Nabokov quotes
(
Russian
born
American
Novelist
,
Critic
and
Author
of "Lolita",
1899
-
1977
)
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A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
”
Vladimir Nabokov quotes
(
Russian
born
American
Novelist
,
Critic
and
Author
of "Lolita",
1899
-
1977
)
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You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.
”
Vladimir Nabokov quotes
(
Russian
born
American
Novelist
,
Critic
and
Author
of "Lolita",
1899
-
1977
)
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The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.
”
Vladimir Nabokov quotes
(
Russian
born
American
Novelist
,
Critic
and
Author
of "Lolita",
1899
-
1977
)
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Here lies the sense of literary creation: to portray ordinary objects as they will be reflected in kindly mirrors of future times. . . . To find in objects around us the fragrant tenderness that only posterity will discern . . .
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Vladimir Nabokov quotes
(
Russian
born
American
Novelist
,
Critic
and
Author
of "Lolita",
1899
-
1977
)
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Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.
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Vladimir Nabokov quotes
(
Russian
born
American
Novelist
,
Critic
and
Author
of "Lolita",
1899
-
1977
)
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